Dendron News

Loading... 1 of 3 Students, including Laura Andrew, center, Chris McKenna, right, and Patrick Sherman, left, hold signs during a press conference before the Surry County Planning Commission's public hearing regarding a proposed coal-fired power plant on Monday, Nov.

In the far-flung 64th House District, a "nice guy" won. Del. William K. Barlow, in office since 1992, narrowly won re-election Tuesday night, with barely more than 50 percent of the vote.

A small crowd of a few dozen activists turned out Thursday for the first local showing of "Coal Country," a film depicting the downside of mountaintop mining that will soon air on public television.

Three large signs supporting the proposed construction of a coal-fired power plant in Dendron were vandalized overnight Oct.

On a plot of land in Dendron, off of Route 31 in Surry County, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative officials want to build the largest coal-fire power plant in Virginia.A If you drive through the Dendron area, the debate over the Cypress Creek Power Plant is clear.

A proposed coal-fired power plant in Surry County would add "significant and harmful" amounts of mercury and other pollutants to the Chesapeake Bay and several river systems in coastal Virginia already suffering from excessive mercury levels, a study released Wednesday concludes.

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Staff Writer DENDRON - The Dendron Town Council voted Monday to let the Surry County Planning Commission review the application for a proposed power plant, and some opponents reacted as if the construction itself had been approved.

The decision, made Monday by a divided Dendron Town Council, reverses a July vote.

The "for sale" sign is gone from Helen Eggleston's front yard. But it could still return to the house where she and her husband live at the center of a storm over a coal-fired power plant proposed for the town of Dendron in Surry County .

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Times Staff Writer DENDRON - As the argument over a proposed coal-fired power plant in this small Surry town intensifies, officials in neighboring Sussex County say they would welcome the facility.

Town officials on Monday agreed that the small community with a multi billion-dollar coal-fired power plant on its horizon will handle its own destiny.

Mike and Helen Eggleston don't want to leave their rambling, restored farmhouse in the town of Dendron .

A small town in Rockingham County has its sights set on becoming a big player in clean coal research.

Dozens of signs urging "No Coal Plant" have sprung up along the highway leading to the Surry County town of Dendron, indicators that plans for a new plant will face some local opposition.

Firefighters took one person to a hospital after someone smoking in bed started a fire in a Southwest Roanoke apartment Saturday evening, officials said.

Dozens of square black signs have cropped up along the main highway leading to this rural town in Surry County, all with the same blunt message: No Coal Plant.

At first, Helen Eggleston of Dendron was all for the coal-fired power plant proposed for her little town in Surry County.

That, in simplified form, summarizes the debate over the proposed coal-burning power plant in Surry County, the latest front in Virginia's struggle to find new energy sources while protecting the environment.

Yvonne Pierce, mayor of the small town of Dendron, sat i n the third row of chairs lined up at a meeting of the Coalition to Keep Surry Clean, and she shook her head.

Surry - Residents will have a chance next week to learn more about potential health and environment risks that some believe could arise if a proposed coal-powered energy plant is built in Dendron.